أَخْبَرَنَا
مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا
عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ ، قَالَ : حَدَّثَنَا
الثَّوْرِيُّ ، عَنْ
أَبِيهِ ، عَنِ
الشَّعْبِيِّ ، عَنْ
سَمْعَانَ ، عَنْ
سَمُرَةَ ، قَالَ : كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي جِنَازَةٍ ، فَقَالَ : " أَهَهُنَا مِنْ بَنِي فُلَانٍ أَحَدٌ ؟ " ثَلَاثًا ، فَقَامَ رَجُلٌ ، فَقَالَ لَهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " مَا مَنَعَكَ فِي الْمَرَّتَيْنِ الْأُولَيَيْنِ أَنْ لَا تَكُونَ أَجَبْتَنِي أَمَا إِنِّي لَمْ أُنَوِّهْ بِكَ إِلَّا بِخَيْرٍ ، إِنَّ فُلَانًا لِرَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ مَاتَ مَأْسُورًا بِدَيْنِهِ " .
´It was narrated that samurah said:` "We were with the Prophet at a funeral, and he said: 'I there anyone from banu so and so here? He said this three times. Then a man stood up, and he said to him: 'What kept you form answering the first two times? I am not going to say anything but good to you, so and so (mentioning the name of a man from among them) has died and he is being detained (from entering Paradise) because of his debt."'
Related hadith on this topic
Explanation & Benefits
Hafiz Muhammad Ameen
Urdu marginal note:
“He is detained” or prevented from entering Paradise. Your intention was that his debt should be paid off quickly on his behalf so that he may be released or may enter Paradise.
Source: Sunan Nasa'i: Translation and Benefits by Shaykh Hafiz Muhammad Amin Hafizullah, Page: 4689
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
Alongside the rights of Allah, it will be very difficult to attain deliverance without fulfilling the rights of the servants, especially the repayment of debts and the like.
And it is the right of the heirs
that they should pay off the debt of their deceased.
The purpose behind the Prophet’s (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) abstention from participating in the funeral prayer of a debtor was also this:
that the deceased’s debt be paid off immediately.
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 3341